.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean King will become the initial personal females's athlete to be awarded the Legislative Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Shirt revealed Tuesday that their bipartisan regulations had passed your home of Panels and also would be actually sent to President Joe Biden for his signature.The costs to honor King, the ping pong Hallway of Famer as well as activist, had actually currently passed all in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, said in a statement that Master's "life time of campaigning for and hard work modified the landscape for ladies and also girls on the courtroom, in the class, and the office." The costs was introduced in September 2023 on the 50th wedding anniversary of Master's triumph over Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexual activities," still the most-watched tennis suit of all time. The award, rewarded through Our lawmakers for prominent achievements and payments to community, has formerly been provided to athletes, including baseball players Jackie Robinson as well as Roberto Clemente as well as golf players Port Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and also Arnold Palmer.King had actually actually been granted the Presidential Medal of Independence in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican politician, claims she possesses "broken barricades, led undiscovered paths, and also influenced numerous people to stand up proudly with tenacity and view in the defend what is right.".